GREENBACK REVOLUTION!

"Banking is concieved in inequity and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, as they ought to disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit." - Sir Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England in the 1920s

OK... It's been a while; been tying up some loose ends in TRW. But I've also been doing a LOT of reading, watching, and writing... and the most important thing I've seen in a long while is a documentary series called "The Money Masters". You can buy it at that link, or you can download a free version from

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You see, I've long suspected that the main thing wrong with our country is that everyone wants to make lots of money, but there's a lot less concern with actually PRODUCING anything. The worst of this phenomenon is the banking system of our country, a system designed solely to make extraordinary sums off the use of other people's money. I warn you in advance, this is a two-part series, each part one and a half hours long, but trust me, this is a MUST SEE for those of you who want to know why modern society is fundamentally screwed and how to fix the situation.

I leave you with the famous quotes, painstakingly taken from the video segments and transcribed by yours truly. Some are from the freedom loving side, and others are from the bankers. Heed their wisdom: these people were there on the ground when the events described actually happened, and described events from their particular perspectives, shedding light on history that was previously shrouded in darkness.

"If the American People ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on thecontinent their fathers conquered" - Thomas Jefferson

"The colonies would gladly have borne a little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War." - Benjamin Franklin

"The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no Motherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained as one block, and as one nation would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world."- Otto Von Bismarck

"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. --- The priveledge of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of the Government, but is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. --- By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and will become the servant of Humanity." - Abraham Lincoln

"If this mischievous financial policy originating in North America shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debt, and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of all the world. The brains and wealth of all nations will go to North America. That country must be destroyed, or it will destroy all monarchies on the globe." - Editorial in London Times explaining the Central Bankers' attitude toward Abraham Lincoln's money creation policy

"The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy." - Abraham Lincoln

"My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country." - Salmon P. Chase

"The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots. I fear that foriegn bankers with their craftiness and theirtorturous tricks will entirely corrupt the exuberant riches of America, and use it systematically to corrupt modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the Earth should become their inheritance."
- Otto Von Bismarck

"Abraham Lincoln, the martyred emancipator of the slaves, was assassinated through the machinations of a group representative of the international bankers, who feared the United States President's national credit ambitions. There was only one group in the world at that time that had any reason to desire the death of Lincoln. They were the men opposed to his national currency program, and who fought him throughout the whole Civil War on his policy of greenback currency. They were the men interested in the establishment of the Gold Standard money system and the right of the bankers to manage the credit and currency of every nation in the world. With Lincoln out of the way they were able to proceed with that plan, and did proceed with it in the United States. Within eight years of Lincoln's assassination, silver was de-monetized and the Gold Standard money system set up in the United States. "
- Report in Vancouver Sun quoting Secret Service document

I went to America in the winter of 1872-73 to secure, if I could, the passing of a bill de-monetizing silver. It was in the interest of those I represented, the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money." - Samuel Seyd

"The disaster of the Dark Ages was caused by decreasing money and falling prices... Without money, civilization could not have had a beginning and with a diminishing supply, it must languish, and unless relieved, finally perish. At the Christian era, the metallic money of the Roman Empire amounted to one billion, eight hundred million dollars. By the end of the fifteenth century, it had shrunk to less than two hundred million dollars... History records no more disastrous transition as that from the Roman Empire to the Dark Ages..." - United States Silver Commission

"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce... And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate." - James Garfield, a few weeks before his assassination.

"On September 1st, 1894, we will not renew our loans under any consideration. On September 1st, we will demand our money. We will forclose and become mortgagees in possession. We can take two-thirds of the farms west of the Mississippi, and thousands of them east of the Mississippi as well, at our own price... the farmers will become tenants, as in England." - Memo calling for bankers to create a depression three years in the future.

"We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: you will not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." - William Jennings Brian (Senator from Nebraska), 1896, in widely hailed "Crown of Thorns, Cross of Gold" speech against Gold Standard

"Those not favorable to the Money Trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame." - Rep. Charles Lindbergh (R-MN) on Crash of 1907

"Competition is sin." - John D. Rockefeller

"I was as secretive, indeed I was as furtive as any consiprator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would have been wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress." - Craig Vanderlift, President of National City Bank of New York & Representative for the Rockefellers, on the secret Jekyll Island bank conference

"The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead." - Rep. Charles A. Lindbergh (R-MN)

"The Aldrich Plan was condemned in the platform... when Woodrow Wilson was nominated... The men who ruled the Democratic Party promised the people that if they were returned to power, there would be no central bank established while they held the reins of government. Thirteen months later, that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration, under the tutelage of those sinister Wall Street figures who stood behind Colonel House, established here in our own free country the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the 'king's bank' to control us from the top downward, and to shackle us from the cradle to the grave." - Rep. Louis McFadden, (D-PA)

"Brushing aside the external differences affecting the 'shells', we find the 'kernels' of the two systems very closely resembling and relating to one another." - Paul Warburg, explaining to bank interests how the Aldrich Plan and the Glass-Owen Bill (establishing the Federal Reserve)were virtually identical

"Although the Aldrich Federal Reserve Plan was defeated when it bore the name Aldrich, neverless its essential points were all contained in the plan that was finally adopted." - Frank Vanderlip

"The... bill grants just what Wall Street and the big banks have for twenty-five years have been striving for: private instead of public control of currency. It [the Glass-Owen Bill] does thisas completely as the Aldrich Bill. Both measures rob the Government and the people of all effective control over the public's money, and vest in the banks exclusively the dangerous power to make money among the people scarce or plenty." - Alfred Crozier, Ohio attorney

NOTE TO READER: Glass-Owen Bill was snuck through the Senate during the holiday recess

"This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this bill, the invisible government by the Monetary Power will be legalized. The people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed... The worst legislative crimeof the century is perpetrated by this banking bill." - Rep. Charles A. Lindbergh (R-MN)

"To cause high prices, all the Federal Reserve Board will do will be to lower the rediscount rate... producing an expansion of credit and a rising stock market; then when... business men are adjusted to these conditions, it can check... prosperity in mid-career by arbitrarily raising the rate of interest. It can cause the pendulum of a rising and falling market to swing gently backand forth by slight changes in the discount rate, or cause violent fluctuations by a greater rate variation, and in either case possess inside information as to financial conditions and advance knowledge of the coming change, either up or down. This is the strangest, most dangerous advantage ever placed in the hands of a special privelege class by any Government that ever existed. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money. They know in advance when to create panics to their advantage. They also know when to stop panic. Inflation or deflation work equally well for them when they control finance..." - Rep. Charles A. Lindbergh (R-MN)

"[the Federal Reserve brought about] a super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure." - Rep. Louis McFadden (D-PA), Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee (1920-1931)

"In the United States today, we have in effect two Governments... We have the duly constituted Government... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution." - Rep. Wright Patman (D-TX)

"If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good, also. The difference between a bond and a bill is the bond lets money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond, plus 20%, where as currency pays nobody but those who contribute directly in some useful way. It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million inbonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people." - Thomas Edison

"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled governments in the civilized world - no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by... the vote of themajority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson

"If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead, it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses,but of the economic elite." - Gary Allen, author

"Power from any source creates an appetite for additional power... it was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishments of a central world-wide dictatorship." - W. Cleon Skousen in "The Naked Capitalist", 1970

"The State does not function as desired. The car does not obey. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes." - Vladimir Lenin on the financial control of the Soviet Union

"The course of Russian history has, indeed, been greatly affected by the operations of international bankers... the Soviet Government has been given United States Treasury funds by the Federal Reserve Board... acting through the Chase Bank. England has drawn money from us and has re-lent it at high rates of interest to the Soviet Government... The Dnieperstory Dam was built with funds unlawfully taken from the United States Treasury by the corrupt and dishonest Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks." - Rep. Louis McFadden (D-PA), Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee (1920-1931)

"These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The warning of Theodore Roosevelt has much timeliness today, for the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like an octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation... It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection... To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interest and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of political leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in high office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business... These international bankers control the majority of newspapers and magazines in this country." - John Hylan, Mayor of New York, New York Times March 26, 1922

"It [the Market Crash of 1929] was not accidental. It was a contrived occurence... The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as rulers of us all." - Rep. Louis McFadden (D-PA), Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee (1920-1931)

"I think it can hardly be disputed that the statesmen and financiers of Europe are ready to take almost any means to reaquire rapidly the gold stock which Europe lost to America as a result of World War I." - Rep. Louis McFadden (D-PA), Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee (1920-1931)

"Actually, it was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the world Money-Powers triggered by the planned sudden shortage of call money in the New York Money Market." - Curtis Dall, son-in-law of FDR, on why Black Tuesday occurred and started the Great Depression

"The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933." - Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist

"After WWI, Germany fell into the hands of the German international bankers. Those bankers bought herand now they own her, lock, stock and barrel. They have purchased her industries, they have mortgages on her soil, they control her production, they control all her public utilities. The international German bankers have subsidized the present Government of Germany and they have also supplied every dollar of the money Adolph Hitler has used in his lavish campaign to build up a threat to the government of Bruening. When Bruening fails to obey the orders of the German International Bankers, Hitler is brought forth to scare the Germans into submission... Through the Federal Reserve Board... over $30 billions of American money... has been pumped into Germany... You have all heard of the spending that has taken place in Germany... modernistic dwellings, her gymnasiums, her swimming pools, her fine public highways, her perfect factories. All this was done on our money. All this was given to Germany through the Federal Reserve Board. The Federal Reserve Board has pumped so many billions of dollars into Germany that they dare not name the total." - Rep. Louis McFadden (D-PA), Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee (1920-1931)

"Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men... The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 4, 1933

"Allegations of missing gold from our Fort Knox are being widely discussed in European fiancial circles.But what is puzzling is that the Administration is not hastening to demonstrate conclusively that there is no cause for concern over our gold treasure - if indeed it is in a position to do so." - Edith Roosevelt

"The powers of world capitalism had [a] far-reaching [plan], nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of this system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank sought to dominate its government by the ability to control treasury loans, to manipulate foriegn exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians with subsequent economic rewards in the business world." - Carroll Quigley, Professor, Georgetown University

"The Third World War is already started. It is a silent war. Not, for that reason, any less sinister. The war is tearing down Brazil, Latin America, and practically all the Third World. Instead of soldiers dying, there are children. It is a war over the Third World debt, one which has as its main weapon, interest, a weapon more deadly than the atom bomb, more shattering than a laser beam." - anonymous "prominant Brazilian politician"

"The stock of money, prices, and output was decidedly more unstable after the establishment of the Reserve System than before. The most dramatic period of instability in output was, of course, the period between the two wars, which includes the severe [monetary] contractions of 1920-1921, 1929-1933 and 1937-38. No other 20-year period in American history contains as many as three such severe contractions. This evidence persuades me that at least a third of the price rise during and just after World War I is attributable to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System... and that the severity of each of the major contractions --1920-21, 1929-33, and 1937-38 -- is directly attributable to the acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities... Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes - excusable or not - can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic -- this is the key political argument against an independent central bank... to paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the central bankers." - Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist

"I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money, and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression." - Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist

"Banking is concieved in inequity and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, as they ought to disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit." - Sir Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England in the 1920s

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the world will accept the New World Order." - David Rockefeller, Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank

"One the one side there is a party which holds the power because it holds the wealth; which has in its grasp all labor and all trade; which manipulates for its own benefit and its own purposes all the sources of supply,and which is powerfully represented in the councils of State itself. On the other side is the needy and powerless multitude, sore and suffering. Rapacious usury, which, although more than once condemned by the Church, is nevertheless under a different form but with the same guilt, still practiced by avaricious and grasping men... so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses of the poor a yoke little better than slavery itself." - Pope Leo XIII, 1898

"In our days not alone is wealth accumulated, but immense power and despotic economic domination is concentrated in the hands of a few... This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its allotment, for this reason supplying, so to speak, the life-blood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of the economy so that no one dare breathe against their will." - Pope Pius XI

"For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole world, if thereby they suffer the loss of their own souls? What will it profit to teach them sound principles of economics, if they permit themselves to be swept away by selfishness, by unbridled and sordid greed, that 'hearing the Commandments of the Lord, they do all things contrary.'" - Pope Pius XI


Recommendations for the Government

1. Pay off the National Debt with debt-free US Notes.
2. Abolish Fractional Reserve Banking. As the debt is paid off, the reserve requirements of all banks and financial institutions would be raised proportionally at the same time...
3. Repeal the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, and the National Banking Act of 1864.
4. Withdraw the US from the IMF, the BIS, and the World Bank.

Recommendations for Families (to avert bad times in a depression)

1. Get out of debt (even if it means lowering your standard of living). In a depression, you stand to lose everything that is financed.
2. Get liquid. Convert assets to liquid currency and pay off major debts like mortgages.
3. Worst case scenario: get silver dollars (pre 1965; those are 90% silver, afterwards not). It's been said in a severe depression, a single silver dollar may be able to buy your family groceries for a week. Consider diversification in foriegn currency - a Swiss or Austrian bank account.
4. Beware solutions to a depression calling for a return to a gold standard: the IMF controls most of the goldsupply in the world, and would then set prices. Also beware a regional or world currency (EUROS!) - this is the international bankers' Trojan Horse.

http://www.themoneymasters.com

Scriptwriters: Bill Still and Patrick S. J. Carmack,1994 Still Productions

Narrated by Rick James (BEE-ATCH!)